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Does anyone else remember being issued with a Colgate dental kit at primary / infant school? It was a big cardboard tube that contained a red plastic cup, a small tube of Colgate and a toothbrush. The cup had no handle, but it was bright red and had a verse written on it in white. I think it said something like "Teeth clean and white, last thing at night".
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its a great idea.
but i started school at the end of the seventies and i got nothing like this.
when was this mate for you in the seventies..FOR THE HONOUR OF GRAYSKULL -
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Another 70's school kid here and we never got anything either.Comment
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I only remember getting a stick on chart so I could tick it when I had cleaned my teeth.
It was stick to the bathroom mirror at home for a few years after.The Trickster On The RoofComment
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We didn't but my kids both did. That was in the early 2000's. They got tooth paste and a milk tooth brush.HeatherComment
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I remember getting something one year. I'm sure it was a small tube of toothpaste with a weird name like Punch and Judy and it tasted fruity rather than minty. I think the toothpaste was green. We might have been given a tooth brush too but I can't really remember. This was probably around 1980-82.1976 VintageComment
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Ha just searched and you can still get this Punch and Judy toothpaste! My memory wasnt deceiving me! And it is fruit flavoured. One flavour is tutti fruity and although I can't find a picture of the actual paste I bet that's the green one.1976 VintageComment
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Here's Punch and Judy
HeatherComment
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My cousins had some Punch & Judy toothpaste in the late 1980s, I tried it once so see what it was like, but it wasn't nice.The Trickster On The RoofComment
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A lot of those toothpastes i do remember well but not punch and judy mate.
it seems regarding getting dental kits in school was perhaps a regional thing.
or possibly just schools at random got them.FOR THE HONOUR OF GRAYSKULLComment
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I assumed everyone my age got them - I was a mid 70s school kid - but I guess it could be the old postcode lottery effect. I was brung up in Dumfries in Scotland. I know I got more that 1 of those kits though, they came round annually or bi- annually. I remember being fed up cos I wanted the one that would give me a "ring of confidence" like on the telly adverts. What was that? Ultrabrite? I actually believed you could buy a toothpaste that would give you one of those glowing rings!
Apart from the freebie Colgate we were a Signal then Signal 2 household!
Ps after posting this I have spotted the "ring of confidence " on the Colgate box in the photo above!Last edited by mazzer; 13-03-2013, 23:57.Comment
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i was late seventies 79 when i went to school.
peraps by then they kits hqad been done away with over here.
think i might ask somebody about them.
but certainly a great idea.
Originally posted by mazzer View PostFOR THE HONOUR OF GRAYSKULLComment
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I remember getting one of these in the early 70's at primary school in Oxfordshire, they came to the school and gave a demonstration on how to clean your teeth and then everyone was given a kit at the end. I remember the red handleless cup very well, I think it might still be at my mothers house.Comment
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I remember using disclosing tablets a few times at school, the ones that turned your teeth pink.The Trickster On The RoofComment
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